English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

  1. Burnt Slip (Other OS name, Appleby, Lincolnshire)

  2. Cowslip Fm (Other OS name, East Stour, Dorset)

  3. Fire Wood Slip (Other OS name, Ardingly, Sussex)

    ( 6 ″ ) adjoins the site of the old furnace here ( v. infra )

  4. Hindlip (Parish in Worcestershire)

  5. Hindlip Quarry (Other OS name, Eaton and Alsop, Derbyshire)

    ( 6 ″ )

  6. Horslip Bridge (Other OS name, Avebury, Wiltshire)

    ( 6 ″ ) [ hɔslip ] , probably from earlier ' horse-leap .

  7. Islip (Parish in Northamptonshire)

  8. Islip (Parish in Oxfordshire)

  9. Lip Lane (Other OS name, Kintbury, Berkshire)

  10. North Slip (Other OS name, Frampton, Dorset)

    , near South Slip , v. slip(p)e

  11. Oxlip Coppice (Other OS name, Abbotsbury, Dorset)

    , cf. the 14th - cent. f.n. Oxenfolde infra

  12. Philip Lane (Other OS name, Brayton, West Riding of Yorkshire)

    , 1841

  13. Philip Spinney (Other OS name, Noseley, Leicestershire)

    , v. Elizabeth Plantationsupra

  14. Ruislip (Parish in Middlesex)

  15. Slip Inn (Other OS name, Brough, Westmorland)

    , 1808 PR(B) , an old inn

  16. Slip Inn Fm (Other OS name, Ashby Parva, Leicestershire)

    , outlying on Lutterworth Rd and presumably a former wayside hostelry

  17. Slip Inn P.H. (Other OS name, Edith Weston, Rutland)

    ( lost ) , c1750, 1757, 1758Anc

  18. Slip Plantation (Other OS name, Eckington, Derbyshire)

    ( 6 ″ )

  19. South Slip (Other OS name, Frampton, Dorset)

    , cf. North Slip supra

  20. Southwell Landslip (Other OS name, Portland, Dorset)

    , 1892 Map , a cliff fall , cf. Southwell supra